LUCILLE TOTH Claremont McKenna College 850 Columbia Avenue

last updated
September, 2015
LUCILLE TOTH
Claremont McKenna College
850 Columbia Avenue
RobertsNorth 212
Claremont. CA 91711
[email protected] / (323) 627-5569 (cell)
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
Fall 2014 - present
Visiting Assistant Professor
Claremont Colleges, Claremont, CA
Department of French Studies – Scripps College, CMC
EDUCATION
2014
Ph.D., Department of French and Italian Studies. Concentration in Performance
Studies and Medical Humanities.
University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
Dissertation Advisor: Natania Meeker. Committee Members: Panivong Norindr,
Sherry Velasco.
"Dancing Illness, Contaminating Beauty: A Viral Approach to the (Choreo)graphed
Body"
2014
Stanford University Mellon Summer Seminar, Dance Studies
2012-2013
Adjunct Scholar (Recherche doctorale libre), École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences
Sociales (EHESS). Paris, France. Research Advisor: Georges Vigarello.
2007
Master of Arts, French Department. Concentration in Performance Studies.
University of Montreal, Canada.
Dissertation Advisor: Catherine Mavrikakis.
"Queer Representations in Quebec and France in the 1980s: One Discourse, Two
Mediums"
2005
Bachelor of Performance Studies, Performance Studies Department, University
Paul Valéry III. Montpellier, France.
2003
Degree in Contemporary Dance (Brevet d’Etat), Anne-Marie Poras School of
dance, Montpellier, France.
AWARDS - GRANTS
2015
2014
2013-2014
2013
2013
2012
2010
2009
2007
Event Grant, French Consulate in Los Angeles
Member of Honor Society Phi Kappa Phi
Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Graduate School, USC
2nd Prize "Recherche au présent" Award, 20th and 21st Century French and
Francophone Studies Colloquium, Atlanta, GA.
Summer Research Grant, Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture, USC
University Outstanding Teaching Award, USC
Graduate Merit Award, USC
Summer Research Scholarship, French Department, USC
Research Grant, "Visage au féminin" Research Chair, University of Montreal
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BOOK
(co-edited volume) Danse contemporaine et littérature: entre fictions et performances écrites (Contemporary
Dance and Literature: Between Fictions and Written Performances.) Ed. by Magali Nachtergael and Lucille
Toth. Paris: National Center of Dance, Collection "Recherches", 2015.
BOOK CHAPTERS
"Introduction." Contemporary Dance and Literature. Ed. by Magali Nachtergael and Lucille Toth. Paris:
Centre National de la Danse, 2015.
"Mise en corps, mise en voix: le texte et ses apparitions sur la scène chorégraphique contemporaine”
(Embodying, Vocalizing: The Text and its Specters in Contemporary Dance.) Contemporary Dance and
Literature. Ed. by Magali Nachtergael and Lucille Toth. Paris: Centre National de la Danse, 2015.
"Introduction" in The Art of Instruction. Vintage Educational Charts from the 19th and 20th Centuries. Ed. by
Katrien Van der Shueren. Los Angeles: Chronicle Books, 2011.
"La communication ou le risque de sa propre voix(e) – discussion avec Peter Starr." Apprendre, enseigner,
transmettre la théorie. Ed. by Mirella Vandean. Toronto: Marengo Press, 2010. pp. 49-65.
"La représentation du corps gai au Québec et en France: un discours, deux médiums" (Queer Representations
in Quebec and France in the 1980s: One Discourse, Two Mediums.) Traversées plurielles. Centre de
decherche sur la littérature et la culture québécoise. Montreal: 2007. pp. 65-83.
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
"Twerk Your Fat Off: The Unbearable Vision of Cellulite in French Contemporary Culture." Article in
progress. French Cultural Studies. September 2016.
Editor. Special issue "Bodily Fluids." Miroir/Miroirs: revue des corps contemporains, Paris, March 2016.
Forthcoming.
"Le crachat et ses métaphores" (Spitting and Its Metaphors). Miroir/Miroirs: revue des corps contemporains,
Paris, March 2016. Forthcoming.
"2015: Queer/n Year. From Caitlyn Jenner to the Rebirth of Drag Balls". Miroir/Miroirs: revue des corps
contemporains. Paris, December 2015. Forthcoming.
"La littérature post-sida: entre nostalgie et actualité de la maladie" (Post-AIDS Literature: Between Nostalgia
and Current Reality.) CRIN. Cahier de Recherche des Instituts Néerlandais de langue et de littérature
française. 2015. Forthcoming.
Sylvain Lavoie and Lucille Toth. "Of Mud and Men: Specters of Pasolini in Canadian Theater."
Oltreoceano, Special issue "Pier Paolo Pasolini. Nelle Americhe", n° 10, 2015.
"Thomas Lebrun à l’ère post-sida: retracer la maladie en dansant" (Thomas Lebrun in the Post-AIDS Era:
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Retracing the Disease Through Dance.) SITES. Contemporary French and Francophone Studies. 18. 4.
(2014): 377-386.
"Les actualités du sida." Spirale. Centre de recherche sur la littérature et la culture québécoise. Montreal. 248
(Spring 2014): 45-46.
"Petit éloge de la souillure (Praising Dirt)." in Lignes de fuite. Ed. by Mathilde Branthomme. Aix-enprovence: 2010.
http://www.lignes-de-fuite.net/article.php3?id_article=127
"From Fashion to Pornography: The Viewer Confronts Himself in Current Photography." Lignes de fuite. Ed.
by Mathilde Branthomme. Aix-en-provence: 2010.
http://www.lignes-de-fuite.net/article.php3?id_article=157
WORKS IN PROGRESS
Viral Dancing: The Sick Body on the Edge of Modern Disgust. Book in progress.
"Who Said I Can’t Dance? When the Legs are Missing but the Jumps are Higher." Article in progress.
INVITED TALKS
Jul 2016
"Vers un autre genre: (trans)textualité et (trans)gestualité sur l’espace scénique
actuel" (Towards a New Gender: (Trans)Writing and (Trans)Moving in
Contemporary Dance). Cerisy, France.
Mar 2016
Guest speaker at the "Festival de la poésie." National Center of Choreography,
Tours, France.
Dec 2015
Literature in the 21st century: images, performances, media. Fondation Ricard,
Paris, France.
Apr 2015
"Discussing the book Contemporary Dance and Literature." National Center of
Dance. Paris.
Nov 2014
"Dancing Words." Comparative Studies in Rhythm Seminar. University of Southern
California.
Jan 2014
"Le post-sida et l’immunodéficience émotive. (Post-AIDS and the ‘emotional
immunodeficiency’)" Journée d’étude sur le sida: University of Verona, Italy.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Dec 2015
"Twerk Your Fat Off: The Unbearable Vision of Cellulite in French Contemporary
Culture." Trash Culture in France, University of London, UK.
Nov 2015
"Let’s (un)move! Controlling Fat Through Dance" Performing Foucault in the XXIst
Century, Scripps College. California.
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Apr 2015
"Who Said I Can’t Dance? On Being a Man no Matter What, and On Performing the
Missing Member." Open Embodiments: Locating Somatechnics, University of
Arizona. Tucson.
Mar 2015
"Stage and Disability: When Dancers Perform the Un-performable." College of
English Association: Disability Studies. University of Puerto Rico.
Mar 2013
"Thomas Lebrun in the Post-AIDS Era: Retracing the Disease Through Dance." 20th
& 21st-Century French and Francophone Studies. Atlanta.
Mar 2013
"From Nana to Nureyev: A Literary Approach to the Dancer’s Sickly Body."
NeMLA. Boston.
Mar 2012
"Hervé Guibert and the Beautiful Disgust." ACLA Convention. Brown University.
Feb 2012
"Nana, la vérolée (The ‘smallpoxed’ face of Nana)." Women in French Convention.
University of Arizona.
Nov 2011
"Hervé Guibert: Representations of AIDS from Writing to Filming." Global
Narratives of Illness and Disability Seminar. University of Southern California.
Oct 2010
"Nelly Arcan and the Erotic Spitting." Nelly Arcan et l’écriture (ob)scène.
University of Montreal.
May 2010
"Orlan and the Performed Medicine." Ne jurer que par un livre: la sacralisation du
texte profane. Montreal.
May 2009
"Petit éloge de la souillure (Praising Dirt)." Le malaise. University of Montreal.
Oct 2008
"L'horreur-réalité: quand le corps est néantisé." Representations. John Hopkins
University, Baltimore.
May 2007
"Porn chic." ACFAS Convention. Trois Rivières, Canada.
May 2007
"Marylin ou l’insaisissable visage." Insaisissable visage au féminin. UQAM.
Montreal.
May 2007
"Sophie Calle." Insaisissable visage au féminin: rapport écriture-photographie.
UQAM, Canada. (moderator)
Apr 2006
"Queer Representations in Quebec and France in the 1980s: One Discourse, Two
Mediums." Colloque des jeunes chercheurs en littérature et culture québécoise.
Montreal, Canada.
CREATIVE- PERFORMANCES
"Jean, Andrea et moi. " Moebius: Apocalypse. n° 10, Montreal, 2015. Forthcoming.
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Choreographer for Coup de Théâtre! A play directed by Professor Boucquey and Professor Haskell, Scripps
College, April 2015.
Dramaturge for Trois décennies d’amour cerné (Three Decades of Fenced-in Love.) A contemporary ballet
co-written with French choreographer Thomas Lebrun (Mr. Lebrun was the guest of honor at the Biénnale de
la danse in Lyon, France) 2013.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytn-CPni3SQ
Assistant choreographer for The Face. An opera directed by Donald Crockett and David St John.
Choreography: Yano Iatrides. Los Angeles, 2012.
TRANSLATIONS- INTERPRETER
"Ratés rythmiques: Damas’ Black-Label and the Negritude Beat" by Edwin Hill. Translation for: Negritud,
the Journal of Afro-American Studies. Ediciones Negritud, Atlanta, 2015. Forthcoming.
Interpreter for guest of honor Lassana Bathily at the French Consulate in Los Angeles. September 2015.
"Nelly Roussel (1878-1922)" by Elinor Accampo. Translation for: Dictionnaire des femmes. Gallimard,
2015.
"Benoit Maire and Falke Pisaro – Collaborative Works." Translation for: Les contemporains vol. 2. Paris:
Manucius, 2014.
"The Female Body. Sade, Mothers and Other Women" by Jane Gallop. Translation for: Itinéraires. LTC.
Université Paris 13 (January 2014).
COURSES TAUGHT
UNDERGRADUATE
● "Dance and Literature" (Scripps College, FREN 180) – 1 seminar
● "Intermediate French" (Scripps College, FREN 33) – 5 classes
● "Intensive Introductory French" (Scripps College, FREN 22) – 1 class
● "Introductory French" (USC, FREN 120) – 2 classes
● "Intermediate French" (USC, FREN 150) – 3 classes
● "Upper lever French" (USC, FREN 220) – 2 classes
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
EVENTS
2015
Organized "Performing Foucault in the XXIst Century" at Scripps College with
keynote speaker Professor Roland Huesca, University of Lorraine, France.
(Event co-funded by the French Consulate in Los Angeles)
2015
Organized "Josephine Baker: Now and Then" at Scripps College with invited
lecturer Professor Edwin Hill, USC
2012
Organized "Viral Literature" at USC with invited lecturer Professor Catherine
Mavrikakis, University of Montreal
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2008
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Organized "Du kitsch au trash: excès de mauvais goût et éloge du rebut" at the
University of Montreal
COMMITTEES
2015
Board member and editor for LGBT publishing house Des ailes sur un tracteur.
Paris, France.
2015
Editor for MuseMedusa. Revue de littératures et d’arts modernes. University of
Montreal, Canada.
2014-2015
Fulbright Research Fellowship. Claremont University
2014
Editor for Pacific Coast Philosophy. Claremont University
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT MENTORSHIP
Senior Honors Thesis Director: Michelle Nagler; Lily Spang.
LANGUAGES
French: Native speaker
English: Fluent/Near native in writing, speaking, reading
Spanish: Advanced level in speaking and reading
REFRENCES
Prof. Stefano GENETTI. Department of French. University of Verona, Italy.
Prof. Catherine MAVRIKAKIS. Department of French Literature. University of Montreal.
Prof. Natania MEEKER, Chair. Department of French and Italian. University of Southern California.
Prof. Magali NACHTERGAEL. Department of Literature and Contemporary Arts. University Paris 13.
Prof. Carrie NOLAND. Department of Comparative Literature. UC Irvine.
Prof. Panivong NORINDR. Department of Comparative Literature. University of Southern California.
Prof. Sherry VELASCO. Department of Comparative Literature. University of Southern California.